{"id":341550,"date":"2026-06-01T15:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T15:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/341550\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T15:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T15:55:07","slug":"judicial-candidate-forums-this-month-in-oakland-county-the-oakland-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/341550\/","title":{"rendered":"Judicial candidate forums this month in Oakland County \u2013 The Oakland Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A series of forums with candidates for Oakland County judgeships are scheduled for June, giving voters the opportunity to hear the contenders speak on issues prior to the Aug. 4 primary election.<\/p>\n<p>Candidates will field questions from the Oakland County Bar Association, Oakland County Legal News and other media members during the forums, which will be moderated by a representative from the League of Women Voters. The events are open to the public, and local citizens are invited to attend and submit questions for candidate response. Attendees must pre-register at <a href=\"http:\/\/ocba.org\/judicial_candidates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ocba.org\/judicial_candidates<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Scheduled forums:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Oakland County Probate Court \u2013 Non-incumbent Race<br \/>Wednesday, June 17, 7:00 \u2013 8:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Oakland County Board of Commissioners Auditorium<br \/>1200 Court Tower Blvd., Pontiac<\/p>\n<p>Candidates:<br \/>Elisabeth C. Dery; Ariel Drissman; Jessica A. Hallmark; Sheila Calvary Worthy-Williams<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Oakland County Circuit Court \u2013 Non-incumbent Race<br \/>Wednesday, June 24, 7:00 \u2013 8:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Oakland County Board of Commissioners Auditorium<br \/>1200 Court Tower Blvd, Pontiac<\/p>\n<p>Candidates:<br \/>Nadine Renee Hatten; Victoria B. King;\u00a0Lisa Marie Neilson<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 47th District Court \u2013 Non-incumbent Race<br \/>Monday, June 30, 7:00 \u2013 8:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Farmington Community Library\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 23500 Liberty Street, Farmington<\/p>\n<p>Candidates:<br \/>Anthony J. Bordoley;\u00a0Shelley R. Drain;\u00a0Moneka L. Sanford;\u00a0Michael E. Sawicky<\/p>\n<p>Another forum is being planned for September, ahead of the November general election, for 51st District Court judicial candidates.<\/p>\n<p>The forums are a result of a partnership of the Oakland County Bar Association, League of Women Voters-Oakland Area, the Oakland County Legal News and the Oakland County Times with assistance from the Theta Lambda Omega chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha.<\/p>\n<p>The forums will be recorded for online viewing and potentially aired on local cable stations.<\/p>\n<p>Completed questionnaires from the candidates and additional information on the forums is available on the OCBA website at <a href=\"http:\/\/ocba.org\/judicial_candidates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ocba.org\/judicial_candidates<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A series of forums with candidates for Oakland County judgeships are scheduled for June, giving voters the opportunity&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[140694,140693,19547,143,140695,145,144],"class_list":["post-341550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-candidate-forums","tag-judicial-candidates","tag-league-of-women-voters","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-county-bar-association","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}